Chance of Rain by Amber Lin Released: November 4, 2013 Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Natalie has lived all of her life in a small town in Texas. She now runs the diner her Gram owns, while her Gram struggles in an assisted living center. Nothing has changed for Natalie in all her years but now some excitement is back in town. Sawyer, a Navy SEAL has returned to take care of his deceased father’s farm. This small town suffocates him and Sawyer wants to get in Continue Reading
Review: Friends without Benefits by Penny Reid
Friends without Benefits by Penny Reid (Knitting in the City #2) Contemporary Romance Released: September 29, 2013 Self Published Reviewed by May Blurb: There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Finney: 1) She suffers from severe sarcastic syndrome, especially when she's unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her like Nico Manganiello, and 3) She knows how to knit. Elizabeth Finney is almost always right about everything: the musical merits of boy bands are undervalued by society, Continue Reading
Review: Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan
Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan (O'Neil Brothers #1) Released: October 29, 2013 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by May Snow Crystal, Vermont is the quintessential Vermont small town that I imagine when I think of that beautiful state. It boasts breathtaking fall scenery, skiing, and a small caring community who loves calling it home. The problem is, the resort is losing money and it won’t be long before the O’Neil family loses their businesses and family Continue Reading
Review: Ethan in Gold by Amy Lane
Ethan in Gold by Amy Lane (Johnnies #3) M/M Contemporary Romance Released: October 4, 2013 Dreamspinner Press Reviewed by Helyce When Evan (Ethan) Costa was a little boy, he was the victim of a sex act that changed everything that he’d known up until that point in his young life. His mother, unable to accept or deal with the incident, becomes a cold, unloving woman, and Evan’s siblings not knowing any better follow her example. Evan grows up, hungry for human touch and as he enters Continue Reading
Review: The Way Home by Cindy Gerard
The Way Home by Cindy Gerard (One-Eyed Jacks #2) Released: October 29, 2013 Contemporary Romance Gallery Reviewed by May When Jess Albert learned the devastating news that her husband, Jeff, was killed in action in Afghanistan, a painful void entered her life. The more time passed, the more acutely she felt that emptiness. But four years later, when Tyler Brown, former military hero and all-around alpha male, shows up, Jess gradually begins to realize there is one thing that can make her Continue Reading
Review: Heating up the Holidays Anthology
Heating up the Holidays Anthology Released: October 28, 2013 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Play With Me by Lisa Renee Jones I DNF’d this story. Hero is this cold businessman. Heroine is hired as his assistant. I did not like at all. I wish this story wasn’t the first in the anthology. Oh well. Snowfall by Mary Ann Rivers. Blurb: Jenny Wright can’t get enough of her erotic conversations with someone she knows only as “C.” Flirting online helps Jenny Continue Reading
Review: Wild Man by Kristen Ashley
Wild Man (Dream Man, #2) by Kristen Ashley Romance Contemporary Paperback, 483 pages Forever October 29, 2013 Reviewed by Tori Note: This book was originally self published in 2011. It is now being rereleased through a publisher, and available in print on 10/29. Favorite Quote: “Is this sinking in that maybe I’m trying to move on in a variety of ways including moving on from Jake Knox slash Brock Lucas?” Tessa O’Hara thought she had found her happily ever after but when she Continue Reading
Review: Obsession by Jennifer Lyon
Obsession by Jennifer Lyon (The Plus One Chronicles #3) Released: October 3, 2013 Contemporary Romance Self Published Reviewed by Mandi In the explosive conclusion to The Plus One Chronicles Trilogy, obscenely rich, jaggedly handsome and still obsessed with love and vengeance, Sloane Michaels must face an impossible choice: lose the woman he loves or betray his twin sister’s memory. Watching the man she adores destroy himself for revenge, Kat Thayne knows she should run and Continue Reading
Review: The Perfect Match by Kristan Higgins
The Perfect Match (Blue Heron, #2) by Kristan Higgins Romance Contemporary Releasing: October 29 , 2013 Harlequin HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “This was...what was the word for it? Hell. Yes. This was hell.” Honor Holland has been in love with her best friend Brogan since high school. Her best friend with benefits. When her gynecologist makes some off hand remarks about her age, motherhood, and the fact her eggs aren’t getting in younger, she makes the decision to ask her Continue Reading
Review: Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning
Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning Released: September 9, 2013 Contemporary Romance Entangled Publishing Reviewed by Mandi This book has a super broody hero and a heroine who likes to give him a hard time. The author executes it quite nicely. Mason’s infant daughter died years ago, devastating him and ending his marriage. He has never quite recovered from the guilt he felt and has submerged himself in work. He flips houses into retreats for high-end clients and his next Continue Reading